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Word: whittlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smothered Incident | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Time enough to pay dry-cleaning bills and to wonder whittler we will miss the 2300 "All-Secure" and the delicious moment of tumbling back into the lower bunk after the matey has dragged "All Feet on Deck" at 0645... and that crush at the mailboxes with at least fifty witness to the fact that you got six letters and a package and it wasn't your birthday...and the armed foroes we are leaving behind us... Now don't let us get mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean...

Author: By Ens. RUTH Wolgast, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

...Harvard lineup: le, Lawrence, Pope; it, Rogstad, Broiderick; lg, Sosman, Van Pelt; c, LaCroix, Putnam, C. Lawson; rg, George, Atkins, Whittler; rt., Fisher, R. Ellis, Teal; re, Davenport, Tatton, Wilson; qb, Kamp, Strezynski, Goethals; lhb, Loring, Chase, Shattuck; rhb, Gifford, Harvey, Guild, MacClelland; fb, Cowen, Tine, Heath...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Crimson Jayvees Run Wild Over Blue, 19-0 | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...unnerStannard," wheezed the Sage of the Age, coming out from Heiden after a Summers rest. "We're Cohen to Philly and there's no Laws about my knockin" em Stiff with my Mallett. We're getting Whittler and Whittler, and that's no Lyman. We made a Row last year by Tine 'em, and this year we'll raise Kane and swamp 'em 14 to 7." Bates 0 New Hampshire 20 Columbia 7 Brown 14 Cornell 20 Syracuse 13 Dartmouth 80 Amherst 13 Fordham 21 Southern Methodist 19 Holy Cross 54 Providence 6 Navy 20 West Virginia 20 Princeton...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Hooey, | Title: Hu Flung Flings 'Em | 10/4/1941 | See Source »

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